The aim of the Main Competition<\/strong> is to present films with unique visual appeal which will then be evaluated by International Jury who will choose and award the authors of the best cinematography.<\/p>\n Also this year we will present the most interesting phenomena of world’s cinematography, distinctive in terms of creative use of the image in film narration.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 22 July<\/span><\/p>\n \n On the 22nd of July 2011, Norwegian right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik was responsible for two terrorist attacks \u2013 first, he set off a car bomb in the middle of Oslo\u2019s government quarter, and then he massacred the members of the youth division of the ruling Labour Party, who were at a summer camp on the island of Ut\u00f8ya \u2013 leaving seventy seven dead, over three hundred wounded, and thousands in a state of shock. The film depicts Breivik\u2019s methodical preparations for both attacks, recreates the nightmare it was for the young people who were hunted down without mercy, and re-enacts the subsequent legal battle that turned the eyes of the entire world to Norway. Politicians try to understand how such a tragedy could have happened in the first place. Lawyers prepare evidence and speeches, while the man representing the mass-murderer before the court struggles with his conscience. And then there\u2019s Viljar, a teenager who almost died on the island but recovered enough to want to stand before his executioner and look him in the eye.<\/p>\n Polish title:<\/strong> 22 lipca \n At Eternity’s Gate<\/span><\/p>\n \n Nowadays, Vincent van Gogh is considered not only an eminent post-impressionist but also one of the most distinguished and influential painters in history; although, during his lifetime he was constantly rejected and mocked. He suffered this derision from people in art circles who did not appreciate his method of depicting the world, and also members of the broader society who were not able to understand his paintings, and perceived the artist as harmful. The film tells the story of van Gogh\u2019s final years, when the painter is persuaded by Paul Gauguin to escape noisy Paris and settle in the town of Arles. There, amidst sun and landscape to die for, van Gogh loses himself in the surrounding natural world. It cannot be said that he finds any empathy or understanding for his avant-garde vision of the world, but despite the growing problems with his troubled mind, it is there that he experiences the most prolific period of his career. The truth is, if it were not for the people he has to deal with, he would be perfectly happy.<\/p>\n Director:<\/strong> Julian Schnabel \n Ballad of Buster Scruggs, The<\/span><\/p>\n \n A smiling cowboy sings his favourite tunes while joyously slaying some innocent victims who dared to dare him. A second-rate showman travels through America with a friendly freak in search of people who will pay good money to see an armless and legless man talk to them about things that do not matter. A down-on-his-luck prospector accidentally discovers a true paradise which ultimately turns out to be something else entirely. The film contains six tales from the Old West, both wild and meek, filled with a number of fast and furious eccentrics with loaded six-shooters, hot-headed bank robbers in trouble, ferocious Indian warriors charging against white invaders, as well as fearless women who try to live up to the world of men they cannot escape. This is six loosely linked stories that sometimes depict the mythical times of the Wild West as an uncontrolled giant bloodbath, but at other times portray a surprising amount of softness and romance in the picturesque valleys and canyons.<\/p>\n Polish title:<\/strong> Ballada o Busterze Scruggsie \n Cold War<\/span><\/p>\n \n The film is set in the turbulent times after the Second World War. We meet the protagonists in Poland at the end of 1940s, when the country was gradually being rebuilt, and we stay with them through different periods up until the 1960s. We see the physically and mentally demolished East, which is already rotting in the corroding gilded cage of ideology, as well as the liberal, revolutionary West in which it is easy to fall into the trap of supposedly being free. Thousands of people, hundreds of attitudes, dozens of songs, and in the middle of it all, we savour the bittersweet romance of Wiktor and Zula, at once beautiful and toxic. The film tells of a gentleman\u2019s elegance versus the emotional whirlwind of being trapped by one\u2019s secrets and desires. Individual dreams are pit against the opportunistic tendencies of the times. And ultimately, we must accept the world as it was, is and always will be \u2013 wild at heart and weird on top. Wiktor and Zula alternately love and hate each other. They break up, and then get back together \u2013 their fate seemingly open-ended.<\/p>\n Polish title:<\/strong> Zimna wojna \n Favourite, The<\/span><\/p>\n \n England at the beginning of the 18th century was no country for poor people. Abused, exploited, unreasonably taxed to pay for the ever-increasing costs of the continental war with France, they can only stay servile and hope things don\u2019t get worse. They would make a great subject for a film, for sure, but this film is about the treacherous machinations, happy-go-lucky backstabbing and hedonistic games of the bored and influential characters who live in a bubble in the court of the permanently unwell Queen Anne. Shy, lonely and utterly confused in a world of patriarchal politics, the monarch leaves the country\u2019s domestic and foreign affairs to her dear friend Lady Sarah while indulging herself in more down-to-earth matters, like feeding her beloved pet rabbits. At one point, she begins to be courted by Abigail, a former aristocrat who simply wants to lead a joyous, carefree life. But this means war with Lady Sarah. England will definitely not become a good country for poor people, but at least the court folk are enjoying themselves!<\/p>\n Polish title:<\/strong> Faworyta \n First Man<\/span><\/p>\n \n Before he made one of the most important leaps for mankind, conquering another celestial frontier in the name of the countless people watching him breathlessly from all over the world, Neil Armstrong endured years of hardship, sacrifice and failure that would make most men end up in a state of permanent depression. The film tells the story of the final eight years before the mission that made him the first man on the surface of the moon \u2013 eight years of uncertainty and living in the shadow of all of the people who sacrificed their lives to make his attempt to conquer the unknown possible. During this time Armstrong becomes a legend, but he does not cease to be a human being. He is a man broken by family tragedy from the distant past \u2013 a man not able to fully express the emotions eating him up from the inside. And he is a man painfully aware of his own limitations and shortcomings but whose self-control helps him keep it together during the realisation of the insane dream he knowingly became a part of.<\/p>\n Polish title:<\/strong> Pierwszy cz\u0142owiek \n Fortress, The<\/span><\/p>\n \n The year is 1636, and the rule of the Ming Dynasty \u2013 which has governed China for more than two and half centuries \u2013 is coming to an end. Soon enough, the Qing Dynasty will take over to lead the empire until the beginnings of the 20th century. Neighbouring Korea, ruled by the Joseon Dynasty, and a centuries-old ally of the Ming rulers, is now an enemy to conquer, and so the Chinese army invades. King Injo escapes with his court and hides away in the mountain fortress of Namhansanseong. It is there that the king\u2019s advisors clash \u2013 not being able to agree on the two possible options they have, with some suggesting that the king should surrender and ask the Chinese rulers for mercy, and the rest demanding that they fulfil their patriotic duty and fight to their last breath. Trapped in a place designed to completely isolate its residents from the outside world, the Koreans spend days debating the best possible solution. Winter is coming, however, and it will force both sides to act, even if not in the way they had planned.<\/p>\n Original title:<\/strong> Namhan Sanseong \n Peterloo<\/span><\/p>\n \n The year is 1815, on the eighteenth day of June. A young, shell-shocked soldier is wandering through the remains of a horrific battlefield. With corpses stretching to the horizon, he tries to comprehend what he\u2019s witnessed. Waterloo\u2019s horrors will reverberate throughout the whole of Europe in years to come. The year is 1819, on the sixteenth day of August. Thousands of protesters from all walks of life \u2013 peasants, factory workers, journalists, and intellectuals \u2013 watch in astonishment as ferocious soldiers charge at them. The massacre during the demonstration in Manchester, later known as Peterloo, and driven by the hurricane of change coming from France and the United States, will soon launch a painful yet necessary process of change in England. The film is set in the years between these two crucial historical events and tells an amalgam of stories of people directly or indirectly connected with what happened at Waterloo and Peterloo. Despite the more than two hundred years that have since passed, their echoes still reverberate in Europe.<\/p>\n Director:<\/strong> Mike Leigh \n Phantom Thread<\/span><\/p>\n \n The United Kingdom in the 1950s is slowly recovering from the traumatic experience that was the Second World War, but the effects of the economic collapse are to reverberate everywhere for many years to come. However, Reynolds Woodcock, a brilliant fashion designer, fearless ladies\u2019 man and self-possessed tyrant, struggles with a completely different problem. It so happens that Alma, the waitress he decides to enamour and make his umpteenth trophy muse, somehow causes him to lose his grip on his perfectly controlled little world \u2013 not only because she is such a charming woman that can turn any man\u2019s life upside down, but also due to the fact that Alma\u2019s strong personality is a surprising match for Woodcock\u2019s. The designer realises that his aesthetical, ephemeral world of art and beauty has always in fact been controlled by strong women who\u2019ve allowed him to become the irresistible charmer and the brilliant design virtuoso he prides himself to be.<\/p>\n Polish title:<\/strong> Ni\u0107 widmo \n Prayer Before Dawn, A<\/span><\/p>\n \n The film is based on the true story of how British boxer William \u201cBilly\u201d Moore overcomes his physical weaknesses and inner demons in search of redemption for his past sins. Addicted to hard drugs and standing dangerously on the brink of self-destruction, Moore is arrested and put in Thailand\u2019s Bang Kwang prison, notorious for being a true hell on Earth. While serving his time, the boxer focuses on living each day without provoking any of the hardened criminals he comes into contact with, while hoping every night that he will not be raped or beaten to death. Gradually he loses all hope, but everything changes when he takes up Thai boxing. The sport helps him release the anger he feels for everyone and everything, and it gives him the opportunity to find the meaning of his life. Despite the fact that he looks pale in comparison to the tattooed warriors who claim the prison as their own, the boxer proves time and again that he deserves both respect and a second chance.<\/p>\n Director:<\/strong> Jean-St\u00e9phane Sauvaire \n Roma<\/span><\/p>\n \n Roma is the name of a middle-class neighbourhood in Mexico City, and this is the story of a family living there and dealing with life\u2019s trials and tribulations. Their ups and downs sometimes arise out of the individual decisions of the family members, and sometimes they\u2019re the result of the political and social upheaval that Mexico City experienced at the beginning of the 1970s. Cleo is the household maid and a descendant of the Mixtecs, the indigenous Mesoamerican people of Mexico. She helps the adults take care of the house and makes sure their children feel enough love and support to develop properly. This is not an easy life, but Cleo is more than aware that things could be worse for her. That is why she takes the world as it is. Trying to find some happiness in a country in which the gap between the classes widens every year and males more often than not turn out to be capricious men-children, Cleo does what is expected of her, while negotiating her own needs and desires.<\/p>\n Director:<\/strong> Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n \n Rose in Winter, A<\/span><\/p>\n \n Working in an impressive-looking skyscraper, a young journalist gets an assignment to write an article about Edith Stein, a Wroclaw-born Jewish woman who lived in Germany and fought against the mistreatment of women and Hitler\u2019s message of hate. She was severely persecuted but went through a deep spiritual transformation and became a Discalced Carmelite nun by the name of Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. She died in Auschwitz, but several decades later was canonised as a martyr and saint of the Catholic Church, becoming one of the patron saints of Europe. All of this is general knowledge one can find in many places; however, during his research, the journalist is introduced to different aspects of Edith Stein\u2019s life and legacy: from serving as a Red Cross nurse during the First World War to educating and stirring young women into action in the increasingly radicalising country. Writing a good story about this woman who he\u2019ll never meet will become the greatest challenge of his life.<\/p>\n Director:<\/strong> Joshua Sinclair \n Star Is Born, A<\/span><\/p>\n \n A fight for love and glory, a case of do or die \u2013 this is one of those classic stories people the world over will enjoy. It is a tale of love, which gives you wings and the strength to be the person you always envisioned yourself to be, and a tale of fame, which weakens the body and the mind. The film portrays rebirth through a chance encounter and having to accept that the old ways are not there to support you anymore. Jackson is a burnt-out musician who is still popular enough to fill the concert halls with fans but not popular enough to fight the urge to drink himself into a state of blissful oblivion. It is obvious that the end of his career is nigh. Ally is a waitress with a voice of an angel who can at best hope for a future as the housewife of a husband decent enough to treat her right. Their stories intertwine, though, at a small bar, and everything changes. Soon enough, she starts to shine so bright that one can only be mesmerised by it, while Jackson slowly fades away. 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\n Director:<\/strong> Paul Greengrass
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> P\u00e5l Ulvik Rokseth
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Scott Rudin Productions
\n Polish distributor:<\/strong> Netflix
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Norway, Iceland, USA, 2018<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/at-eternity-s-gate-still-lep-1024x679.jpg\")
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\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Beno\u00eet Delhomme
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Riverstone Pictures, SPK Pictures, Iconoclast
\n Country and year:<\/strong> UK, France, USA, 2018<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ballad-of-buster-scruggs-the--1024x553.jpg\")
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\n Directors:<\/strong> Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Bruno Delbonnel
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Mike Zoss Productions, Annapurna Pictures, Annapurna Television
\n Polish distributor:<\/strong> Netflix
\n Country and year:<\/strong> USA, 2018<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/zimna_wojna_fotosy252-1024x768.jpg\")
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\n Director:<\/strong> Pawe\u0142 Pawlikowski
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> \u0141ukasz \u017bal
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Opus Film Sp. z o.o.
\n Polish distributor:<\/strong> KINO \u015aWIAT Sp. z o.o.
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Poland, 2018<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/favourite-the-still-1024x683.jpg\")
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\n Director:<\/strong> Yorgos Lanthimos
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Robbie Ryan
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Element Pictures, Waypoint Entertainment, Scarlet Films, Channel Four Films (FilmFour – Film4)
\n Polish distributor:<\/strong> Imperial CinePix Sp. z o.o.
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Ireland, UK, USA, 2018<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/First-Man-still-1024x383.jpg\")
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\n Director:<\/strong> Damien Chazelle
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Linus Sandgren
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Dreamworks Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Temple Hill Entertainment, Universal Pictures, Perfect World Pictures
\n Polish distributor:<\/strong> United International Pictures Sp. z o.o. (UIP Polska)
\n Country and year:<\/strong> USA, 2018<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/fortress-the-still-1024x682.jpg\")
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\n Director:<\/strong> Dong-Hyuk Hwang
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Ji Yong Kim
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Siren Pictures
\n Country and year:<\/strong> South Korea, 2017<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Peterloo_still-1024x576.jpg\")
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\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Dick Pope
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Thin Man Films Ltd., BFI Film Fund, Helen Gerson, Film4
\n Country and year:<\/strong> UK, 2018<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/phantom-thread-still-1024x683.jpg\")
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\n Director:<\/strong> Paul Thomas Anderson
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Paul Thomas Anderson
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Annapurna Pictures, Ghoulardi Film Company, Focus Features
\n Polish distributor:<\/strong> United International Pictures Sp. z o.o. (UIP Polska)
\n Country and year:<\/strong> UK, USA, 2017<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/prayer-before-dawn-a-still-102-1024x438.jpg\")
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\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> David Ungaro
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Senorita Films, Hurricane Films
\n Country and year:<\/strong> France, UK, Cambodia, USA, China, 2017<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/roma_21506-002r-1024x789.jpg\")
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\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Esperanto Filmos, Participant Media
\n Polish distributor:<\/strong> Netflix
\n Country and year:<\/strong> Mexico, USA, 2018<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Rose-In-Winter-A-still-1024x575.png\")
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\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Vittorio Storaro
\n Produced by:<\/strong> A Rose In Winter Ltd
\n Country and year:<\/strong> UK, 2018<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Star-Is-Born-A-still-1024x683.jpeg\")
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\n Director:<\/strong> Bradley Cooper
\n Cinematographer:<\/strong> Matthew Libatique
\n Produced by:<\/strong> Malpaso Productions, Gerber Pictures, Thunder Road Pictures, Live Nation, Joint Effort, Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)
\n Polish distributor:<\/strong> Warner Bros. Entertainment Polska Sp. z o.o.
\n Country and year:<\/strong> USA, 2018<\/p>\n